There is no reasonable fix to Chicago’s financial situation other than bankruptcy. This amount of debt cannot be "outgrown"—that's pure cope. Continuing to increase taxes, fees, and fines will drive residents and businesses out, triggering an irrecoverable death spiral.
This is approximately a million times worse than Epstein. It’s not even remotely close. The scale. The nature of the crimes. The powerful institutions implicated. And yet something tells me that many of the Epstein obsessives will have nothing at all to say about this.